Highly compressed games. MANCHESTER, TN – JUNE 09: Eminem performs during the 2018 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 9, 2018, in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by C Flanigan/WireImage) Some artists need months of promotion and pushing singles onto the masses in order to have a shot at the top spot on the albums chart, but Eminem isn’t one of them. Last Friday (August 31), the rapper shocked the world by surprise-releasing a full-length album,, with absolutely no warning and no proper announcement. All of a sudden, the record was available on digital download storefronts and via streaming platforms (it wasn’t available to buy upon arrival in any physical form), and fans reacted by rushing to listen to what Marshall Mathers had come up with this time around. Kamikaze debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with ease thanks to 434,000 equivalent units. Of that sum, 252,000 are actual sales.
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The newly-released title is Eminem’s tenth solo No. 1 album, an impressive sum that even many of the most successful artists of all time haven’t managed.
Eight of those No. 1s are proper albums of new material, and the other two include his successful soundtrack for the film 8 Mile (which he also starred in) and his greatest hits compilation Curtain Call: The Hits. In addition to his 10 No. 1 albums, Eminem has also sent four other titles into the top 10, bringing his career total as a soloist to 14 top 10s.
As a member of a group, Eminem has even more successes to his credit, even if they aren’t often listed among his accomplishments. Eminem has nabbed an additional three No. 1 albums, two as a founding member of D12 (2001’s Devil’s Night and 2004’s D12 World ) and one as one-half of Bad Meets Evil, the supergroup he formed with fellow hip-hop musician Royce da 5’9”. Bad Meets Evil has only released one EP, Hell: The Sequel, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 back in 2011.
Since none of the songs featured on Kamikaze were released before the album itself, none have charted on the singles listing yet, though when the Hot 100 refreshes in a short while, the rapper will likely add at least a few new cuts to his ever-expanding list of charting singles. Surprise albums are becoming more and more popular with the biggest names in the business, but Eminem’s drop was particularly shocking, as he typically spaces his full-lengths out with a few years separating them.
His last album, Revival, was released less than a year ago in December 2017, when it also reached the summit, though it did fail to produce any top 10 hits. Find Hugh McIntyre on. Power 3 medical. RECOMMENDED BY FORBES •.
At the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, commanded an army of bleach-blonde soldiers. Beginning his performance of The Real Slim Shady outside New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Em and his squad of lookalikes entered the arena and made a beeline for the stage like white blood cells rushing to a wound. It was a clever performance, ribbing on the wacky single’s central theme: that when it came to the rapper, accept no imitators. But it also worked a microcosm for the wider pop climate. At the turn of the century, was absolutely everywhere.